Legos and Karl Marx?

If there is anyone around that thinks communism as a practical system was defeated when the Soviet Union crumbled, they should rethink that premise. The tenents of Marxism are alive and well and being diligently taught in our schools. We have all heard stories of left-leaning, America hating professors in our institutions of higher learning, but it starts much earlier than that....

Banning LEGOs

Teachers at a Seattle day care center decided to ban LEGO building blocks — those colorful little bricks kids use to build such creations as robots, monster trucks, space ships and vast futuristic cities. The Hilltop Children's Center bills itself as a nationally recognized, non-profit, non-religious facility. So why did the teachers toss the LEGOs?

We'll let them explain: "We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children's understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the LEGOs out of the classroom. The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

After months of what the teachers called "social justice exploration" — they let the LEGOs back in — but kids were only allowed to build "public structures" of standard sizes in a village dedicated to what they called "collectivity and consensus." (Foxnews.com)

How many people really know what Marxism is? I know I was never taught in school or in college what Marxist philosophy was. We hear it often and think we know. But how many take the time to look for themselves?

The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, listed Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as authors, but Engels later stated it was Marx who wrote it. If you have never taken the time to read it, it is important you do so. It openly and flatly calls for the overthrow of government by the working class. The basic tenets of the manifesto are posted below for your enlightenment. I hope it makes your skin crawl.

10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.. (Wikipedia.com)

I hope this stimulates thought and, with that, some research of your own. What you don't know CAN hurt you....

Oklahoma Rules

Rules of OKLAHOMA:

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Let's get this straight; it's called a "gravel road". I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.

3. They are cattle and oil wells. That’s what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us. Don't like it? I-40 goes east and west, I-35 goes north and south. Pick one.

4. So you have a $60,000 car. We're impressed. We have a $250,000 cotton stripper that we drive only 3 weeks a year.

5. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.

6. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of doves are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

7. Yeah, we eat catfish and crawfish. You really want sushi and caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.

8. The "opener" refers to the first day of the deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.

9. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.

10. No, there is no "vegetarian special" on the menu. Order steak or you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off all two pounds of ham and turkey.

11. When we set a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and Picante Sauce! Oh, yeah....we don't care what you folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat...IT AIN'T REAL CHILI! Chili was born and bred in Tulsa. By the way, real chili never met a bean!

12. You bring "coke" into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice. You bring "Mary Jane" into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
13. College and high school football is as important here as the Lakers and the Bears, and a dang site more fun to watch.

14. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards -- it spooks the fish.

15. Colleges? Try O.U., O.S.U., or Oral Roberts University. The students graduate with an education plus a love for God and country, and they still wave at passing pickups when they come home for the holidays.

16. Oklahoma is the home of the honored "45th Infantry Division". They have a beautiful museum in Oklahoma City. We also have a bunch of folks in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard, like many other states, and we are proud of every one of them. If you don't honor the flag around here, you will get whupped by the best.

OKLAHOMA BECAME A STATE 100 YEARS AGO.

Saudi Kidnap, Rape Victim Faces Lashing

This is what it means to women to live under the peace-loving and enlightened religion that so venerates women.

Saudi Kidnap, Rape Victim Faces Lashing for 'Crime' of Being Alone With Man Not Related to Her

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

A 19-year-old Saudi woman who was kidnapped, beaten and gang raped by seven men who then took photos of their victim and threatened to kill her, was sentenced under the country's Islamic-based law to 90 lashes for the "crime" of being alone with a man not related to her.

The woman is appealing to Saudi King Abdullah to intervene in the controversial case.

"I ask the king to consider me as one of his own daughters and have mercy on me and set me free from the 90 lashes," the woman said in an emotional interview published Monday in the Saudi Gazette.

"I was shocked at the verdict. I couldn't believe my ears. Ninety lashes! Ninety lashes!" the woman, identified only as "G," told the English-language newspaper.

Five months after the harsh judgment, her sentence has yet to be carried out, "G" said she waits in fear every day for the phone call telling her to submit to authorities to carry out her punishment.

Lashes are usually spread over several days. About 50 lashes are given at a time.

The woman's ordeal began a year ago when she was blackmailed into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock, which is illegal in the desert kingdom, according to a report in The Scotsman newspaper.

She met the man at a shopping mall and, after driving off together, the blackmailer's car was stopped by two other cars bearing men wielding knives and meat cleavers.

During the next three hours, the woman was raped 14 times by her seven captors.

One of the men took pictures of her naked with his mobile phone and threatened to blackmail her with them.

Back at home in a town near the eastern city of Qatif, the young woman did not tell her family of her ordeal. Nor did she inform the authorities, fearing the rapist would circulate the pictures of her naked. She also attempted suicide.

Five of the rapists were arrested and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years. The prosecutor had asked for the death penalty for the men.

The Saudi justice ministry, however, said rape could not be proved because there were no witnesses and the men had recanted confessions they made during interrogation.

The judges, basing their decision on Islamic law, also decided to sentence the woman and her original blackmailer to lashes for being alone together in his car.

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